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MERCANTILE EsTABLsHMEsr OF J. BREWSTER 8 co GAIT.

The extension of the Amador and Saera-
mento Canal from Michigan Bar, now be-
ing made, will turn the broad wheat fields
into vegetable gardens, orchards and vine
yards, and where there is now one family
there will then be ten, and the production
will be immeasurably increased.
RARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HoMEsEEkERS.
1t is safe to say that there is no other
district in the Sacramento valley where
the same quality of land can be bought as
cheap as in the country surrounding tsalt,
and there is no more beautiful, fertile and
healthy country in the world There can
be no doubt that all these lands will
rapidly enhance in the near future,
and the lands now for sale at such
low prices will bring high figures.
As showing the opportunities for puTchas-
ing land the following holdings are nearly
all for sale at reasonable prices: Sergeant
Bros, $3.50 acres; DR.. Obed Harvey, :, $3.50
acres Jno. Mcfarland, 1850 acres; An
drew Whitaker, 3,400 acres; Ohm &
Stamp, 464 acres Whitaker, Ray & Miles,
6,73l acres; The McCauIey estate, 10000
acres; A. Marengo, GAO acres; j. NJ. Short,
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great navigable Sacramento washes the
whole western border Of the district
There are several good landings on its
banks, from which there are the cheapest
freight and passenger rates to and from the
ocean. These low water rates are impor-
tant as compelling corresponding rates by
rail. They will insure low rail rates 50
long as the current of this great stream
flows down to the sea.
There is rapid transportation by rail.
The Western Railroad, one of the main
lines of the great overland system, runs
through this. district, giving a connection
with the Central and Union Pacific roads
to the east by the California and Oregon
to all the vast region of the Columbia and
Puget Sound, and on the south by the
Southern Pacific with the Gulf States.
AT Gait there is a branch line of standard
gauge that runs east to the mines, forests
and orchard and vineyard lands of Amador
county.
GAIT 4 JUNCTION CITY.
This makes Gait an important junction
city, and insures for her a brilliant future.
BY these means of transportation this dis
trict has access to the markets of the
world. BY the river and by rail her pro-
ducts can reach the Pacific ocean, on the
shores of which third of the worlds
population dwells. From the Golden Gate
her products can reach Europe by the
Cape or the Isthmus. BY the Southern
Pacific the southern portion of the Rocky
Mountain section, Texas and the other
Southern States is reached. BY the Cen
trail Pacific the middle section of the
trans Missouri and the Mississippi valley
is reached. By the California and Oregon
the great new and old Northwest, clear to
to the Lakes, is brought within reach. No
better facilities for reaching the best mar
kets of the world could be desired.
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FLOWING ARrEsIAN BELT.
THE SOIL.
Something of the Various Rich Lands of
this Section

Something of the Various Rich Lands of
this Section.
The soil of this district is as fertile as
the valley of the Nile. There is no doubt
that the whole valley portion and the up
lands and foothills to an altitude of
many hundred feet, were portions of the
bed of the old lake which once covered all
the Sacramento valley Into the bed of
this lake the wash of the surrounding
mountains was poured and thus formed
the present soil. 1t is made up of all the
fertile mineral and vegetable elements
in almost inexhaustible quantities. Many
assays have been made Of these soils from
the alluvial valleys, the uplands and foot
hill slopes. and they show that there are
no more fertile soils anywhere. \ better
test, and a more indisputable testimony,
are the great crops that are annually
raised here. Figures of wheat and barley
crops could be given which run from
EIGHTY To ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
BUSHELS TO THE ACRE,
But the average yield is more reliable,
which is more than twice as much rs in
the States and Territories east of the
Sierra Nevadas. The high rate of
production runs through everything
produced. The soil is not only
fertile, it is lasting. There are pieces of.
land in the Gait district which have been
cropped each year for more than third of
a century without perceptibly diminish
ing the crop rate. There are great vari-
ETY. of soils in this district. There are
black alluviums, dark red and brown loans,
all rich, warm and lasting.
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A Marrying Market for 100 Girls.

The Panhandle of Texas is body of
territory running up at the extreme north
west corner of the State between the Indian
Territory and New Mexico. 1t is now fill
ing up with people, and in Crosby county,
where the largest gathering of population
is, there is a town which has taken the
name of Par handle. Somebody has started
a newspaper there, and in recent issue of
it appeared the following Wanted
Immediately, 100 single young women who
are prepared to rough it for a time to come
% tie Panhandle, and marry our thrifty
young men who are located on 640 acres Of
land and are now liring in dugouts, tents
and cabins. We can speak good word for
every one of the boys; they are all noble
American citizens except one, and he is a
little unfortunate in being the son of an
English lord. Girls, this is good chance.
Besides this, married life will beat single
blessedness every time. Ina few months
time the dugouts will be turned into eel
lars, and comfortable houses erected when
the railroads bring in lumber" There is
no place like a new country for the fair
sex. There every woman is a belle and
every good woman is little less than an
angel. The rough men of the frontier
know how to appreciate the intrinsic ex-
celience of the sex.-Neae Orleans Picayaae.
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500 acres; Peter Planalp, $50 acres; Judge
j. II. McCune, 100 acres; J. B. Gates,
$50 acres; John Blair, 800 acres SAWYER
Bros, 500 acres, and there are numerous
other tracts for sale.
A PLACE FOR IDEAL HOMES.
II the home-seeker desires home in
fine climate, on the richest soils and the
most beautiful surroundings, and among
progressive, energetic and hospitable peo-
pie, where every product Of the continent
grows to perfection, he can make it here in
the Gait district. He can have his home
in one of the grandest oak groves, and sur
round it with orchards and vineyards,
groves Of orange, lemon, citron, pome-
granate, palm and olive trees, and he can
embank it with the rarest of flowers, and
have the dense shade of the vine and fig
tree under which he is to recline as he en-
joys the well-earned rest from his labors.
The Gait district is fertile spot in the
garden Of the Pacific coast.
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tons of the Government and the railroad,
Colonel Raymond made several citations
from the decisions in the sinkingfund
cases TO establish his view of the matter,
among them being that of the United
States versus the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, 9S U. s.. 569
Their rights as sovereignS are not
crippled because they are creditors. and
their privileges as creditors are not en-
lagged By the charter because Of their
sovereignty. They cannot. as creditors,
dema=d payment of what is due them be-
fore the time limited by the contract.
Neither can they as sovereign or creditors,
require the company 10 pay the other
debts il owes before they mature. But out
Of regard to the rights of the subsequent
lienholders and stockholders, it is not only
their right, but their duty as sovereign, to
see TO 1t that the current stock holders do
not in the administration Of affairs of the
corporation, appropriate TO their own use
that which in equity belongs to others"
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PRODUCTIONS.
The Great Varieties Grown-Immense
Yields of Ger Gals and Vegetables.

The Great Varieties Grown-Immense
Yields of Ce1 eals and Vegetables.
The productions of this section are of
the most varied character. They embrace
everything that grows in the cold north
and in the hot south. The warm days
and the cool nights the year around make
this common ground where the children
of the north and south meet and fraternize.
Wheat from the high attitudes and lati-
tudes meets the rice from the south, and
they grow side by side. The Siberian
crab apple and pomegranate are produced
in the same field. By the side of the Nor
way pine,
The fragrant orange flowers
Fall to earth in silver showers.
The oak that braves the fer"est Arctic
blast and the palm that is wooed to life by
soft winds and warm sunlight, grow to
luxuriance and interlace their branches.
Every fruit and flower that has its home
from the snow regions of the frigid zones
to the everglades of the tropics fiourishes
in the open air here.
THERE ARE GREAT WHEAT RANCHES.
That employ scores of men and teams in
seed time and harvest. There are vege-
table farms that produce train loads of
vegetables, great fields of corn, orchards
with every kind of tree fruit, and vine
yards with all the varieties of grapes
which grow from the inhospitable Baltic
coast to the delicate varieties of the Me
diterranean. The experiences in agricult-
ure and horticulture run back before the
days of gold in the 40's. In that long time
the capacities of the soil and climate have
been pretty thoroughly demonstrated. 1t
has been shown thatwheat, oats and barley
are certain aud remunerative crops, and
that the yield per acre is fully twice as
much as the average yield in the Eastern
States. Corn has been grown to some ex-
tent with success.
ALL KINDS OF VEGETABLES
Are produced of superior quality and in
quantities above the average, on alluvial
ground near the streamsy yor where irriga-
tion is used. Several crops of vegetables
are grown each year. There is no month
of the year but what some kind of vege-
table natures here. As bearing upon this
question of successive groupings through
the year and upon the market for these
products, the fact that from November to
june immense quantities of vegetables
are shipped to every town of size west of
the Missouri river, between the British
dominions on the north and the republic
of Mexico on the south New Orleans.
San Antonio. Austin and Sherman order
them by the carload. Most Of the towns
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volumes of water. On the north Is
THE CosUMNEs RIVER,
A stream which has its sources in the
higher Sierras, and which runs full-banked
through the whole year. This stream has
a number of tributaries some of which
take their rise in the canyons and gorges
of the mountains, and others in the range
of foothills, all of which furnish an album
dance of water for irrigation and domestic
purposes.
In the higher mountains, along the
foothills, and on the plains even,
there is complete system of clear, cool
springs, and everywhere in this area fine
well-water can be had at depths varying
from ten to thirty feet. In the Sacra-
mento valley the best water in the world
Is found at depth of from 20 to 80 feet.
Underlying all the alluvial lands there is
stratum of old river gravel from 20 to 40
feet from the surface, and when this stra-
tum is reached in the well, cold gravel
filtered water in inexhaustible quantities is
found In addition to this stream, spring
and well supply, there are large water
bitches in the mountain portion of this
section. These artificial canals were con-
structed for mining purposes at great
cost, and they are now available Tor the
uses of agriculture. 1t is almost certain
that all the Sacramento valley section is in
the
FLOWING ARTISAN BELT.
In the neighborhood of Stockton, only 80
miles south of Gait, there are several fine
flowing wells, which furnish great quanti-
ties of water each twenty-four hours
There is no geological reason why these
same water basins should not underly the
Gait district. Flowing wells on every
farm would work great change. They
would give sparkling fountain at every
front door, yernal green and bloom to
every yard, running water in each room of
the house, and in all the corrals, barns and
stables. The living streams, bubbling
springs, clear pure water in wells, great
mining canals, and the certainty of
flowing artesian wells, all make the Gait
district one of the best watered in the
world.
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SEEK NO FURTHER.
How to Express Gratitude for Physical
Regeneration.

Regeneration.
Z" We always find what we do not seek,''
says an old proverb. And it is so. You
never seek a disappointment but you have
very likely found several. You certainly
have, if a lady ard are troubled with any
form of weakness or pain Whatever pecu-
liar to your sex, if you have been pre-
scribed for By the average physician, who
tries to know little of everything and
knows nothing we'll. Some of the express
sions of gratitude for the physical regenera-
ton wrought by MIS-. Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound read like the rejoic-
ings OF converts after religious revival.
1t brings Salvation to the body. A lady in
Franklin Parish, La, writes: tried one
bottle of your Compound for Prolapsus
Uteri and Leucorahoea. / never had any
thing in my life that did me as much good.
| was hardly able TO walk about without
difficulty. l could not step upon anything
without pain. When | think how much
good that one bottle did me- feel as if l
could fall on my knees to you and say,
Blessed art thou above all others, for
thou art one Of the greatest benefsctors
that woman ever had"
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PIPE AND PORCELAIN cLAYs.

Which should induce the investment of the
necessary capital to establish factories for
the manufacture of all kinds of drainage
pipes, architectural terra Gotta, earthen
ware and porcelain for domestic use. These
clays are of the best quality, are near trans
portation and fuel is cheap. 1t only needs
the capital, enterprise and experience to
insure unqualified success. In addition to
the timber for fuel there is in this district
ONE OF THE BEST COAL FIELDS
On the Pacific coast At lone, in the foot
hills, mines of Ignite coal have been
worked for many years, and the coal is ex-
tensively used for furnaces. This furnace
coal is an important factor to be considered
in the future of the manufactures Of this
section.
THE TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
Here are unexcelled. On the west, the
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winter, for spring and autumn fill the year.
With the first warm showers of October
@sprinc unlocks the flowers to paint the
laughing SOIL Then
s',Cones the spring with all It's splendors:
All its birds and blossoms;
All its flowers, and leaves and grasses
And ii stays in all its beauty till the dry
season commences, which is in June or
July.
THE SUMNER TEMPERATURES
Are moderated by ocean breezes which
come up the great valley, and make the
afternoons delightful. At night the air
currents are from the higher mountains.
and are refreshing and invigorating. OF
the evenings and nights of the Sacramento
valley no pen or pencil can draw trGe
picture The cloudless, starlight sky, the
mild temperatures that WOO TO the open air
of porches, lawns or gardens, the pervading
perfume of sea of flowers, the quiet hum
of an infinite variety of insect life and the
murmur Of the foliage of trees and groves
as it stirs to the earesses of the soft
night winds-all these beauties, charms
a,.d glories of semi-tropical nights are be-
yond language te portray.
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THE WATER SYSTEM.
Abundance of Water from Never-Failing
Sources

Sources.
The water system of this region is an
extensive one, and embraces, rivers, creeks,
springs and an unfailing supply of well
water. On the west Is the Sacramento,
which washes the whole western border.
THIS is the largest river in the State, and
one Of the largest of the Pacific coast. il
carries volume Of water which floats the
largest vessels the year around From
this stream the water could be easily OBJ
tained By cheap canals to flood the whole
of the valley lands and to give water trans
portation to every portion of this section
The day is not far distant which will see
a network of canals covering the whole of
these plains. In the southern portion OF
the Gait district are Dry creek and the
lowr l9rtion of the Moselumne river,
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THERE ARE TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY
CLoUDLESS DAYS
Each year in this section, and glorious
days they are. For months in the fall
there is one long Indian summer, each day
filled with floods of sunlight and soft
balmy south winds, and the land is COW
cred with the soft autumn haze 1t is
said that there are shadings to every bright
picture, but the picture of California eli
mate has few shadows. There are no
blizzards, no cyclones, no snow, no ice,
and there is no record of sunstroke in the
Gait district.
TEMPERATURE AT GAIT.
The temperatures at Gait are as follows
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A mixed overland rate IS established also
-heiDg a rate between first and third-class
rates. With q ticket in this class the trav-
eler has third class sleeping accommoda-
tons to the Missouri river, and beyond he
has the privilege of securing Pullman
sleeping car, which he may not do with
third class ticket. The third-cIsss rate
from here to New York will be reduced to
$50 25.-S f. Bulletin
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in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and
Minnesota buy and eat our vegetables dur
ing those months.
SHIPMENTS TO THE EAST.
This past season train-load lots of vege-
tables were shipped to Chicago, Cleveland
and Cincinnati to the end of May. Little
has been said of this demand for Cali
fornia vegetables, but it is true, however,
that the volume of these shipments is
greater than the shipments of our fruit
The demand has doubled each year for the
past three or four years, and there can be
no doubt that all the vegetables possible to
be raised here will bring remunerative
prices. There is probably no branch of
farming that pays better than vegetable
growing. A small quantity Of land only
is required, and in ninety days after the
first seed is planted something Of return
NAV be realized
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COMPARISONS WITH ITALIAN CLIMATE.
Compare these with the temperatures of
Naples in Italy, considered to be the best
climate in the world:
THE RAINFALL.

The average rainfall is about twenty
inches being ample for all staple crops.
As has been stated before in this article,
the rains come in showers through six
months of the year. commencing in Oc-
tober. There are no down-pourings of
rain lasting through days and weeks, and
there are no long periods during which
the skies wear a dull and leaden appear
ance. The rainy season is a succession of
showers and sunshine. 1t is sNature smiling
through her tears
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OTHER BUILDING MATERIALS.
abundance of Limestone. Various Kind:
of Claws, Etc.

of Clays, Etc.
Of indestructible materials for buildings
there are fine limestone, sandstone and
granite quarries, and there are deposits of
clay for fire-proof and building brick
There has been long experience in the
use and wear of the brick made in this
district, and that experience has demon
strated that the bestof brick can be made
here at small cost. While speaking of
clay 1t is proper to say thai this district
has larger deposits of
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THE CLIMATE.
A Winterless Country, with Semi Tropic
Productions-Temue Etc

The climate of the Gait district is the
principal of her many charms. There is
the deep blue azure Of the Italian skies
overhead, the warm floods Of golden sun
light in valley and on hillside, and the soft
winds from the warm ocean currents
There is no winter; the great Sierras form
mighty barrier which defects the cold
Arctic currents to the east, and the west
winds, tempered by the thermal streams
which take their rise among the tropic
isles in the Indian ocean, come through
the Golden Gate, and, spreading over the
land, give it the orange, citron, pome-
granate, magnolia and other
FLORA OF THE WARM SOUTH.
We still cling to the names of the sea-
sons, which We brought from cold coun-
tries We speak of December, January
and February as winter, although in those
months the whole country wears the vernal
bloom of spring, and every valley and hill
side is covered with floral display rich in
every color of the rainbow. There is no
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PALM TREES OF THE TROPICS.

PALM TREES OF THE TROPICS,
Including the beautiful fan palm, and the
tender date and banana palms, grow here.
There are laurel, lemon, lime, larch, holly,
orange, olive, magnolia, myrtle, pome-
granate, tulip and yew trees, forming, with
the indigenous growths, an arboral wealth
nnequaled in any one spot on earth.
There is every nut-bearing tree that grows
on this continent, and they find everything
congenial to them here.
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To REMOVE GRASS STAINs.-To remove
wet grass stains on white goods with water,
rub in some soft soap and as much baking
soda as will adhere; let stand half an
hour, wash out in the usual manner, and
the stain will generally be gone.
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The pruning OF vines has been investi-
gated by II. Mueller, who finds that the
proper time is while the fruit is ripening,
and that the young shoots should be cut,
as their development requires much sugar.
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JUDGE HOFFMAN,S OPINION.
He Holds That Senator Stanford Should
Have Been Made to Answer.


Judge Hoffman. of the United States
District Court; has filed an opinion dissent
ing from that of Judges Field, SAWYER and
Sabin, as to whether Senator Stanford had or
had not the right to refuse 10 answer GER
tain questions propounded by the Railroad
Commission. Judges Field, Sawyer and
Sabln, in their opinion, stated he had a
right to refuse to answer any and all such
questions. Judge Hoffman, however, holds
a different view, and has given expression
to it in lengthy opinion. The gist of it's:
" If the grounds on which the decision of
the Court in the present case are in great
part based be correct, its aid must be re-
fused not only to these two Commissions,
but also to all Commissions of inquiry
created by Congress to obtain information,
however necessary TO enlighten legislation.
l think it clear that the right to require in
formation in aid OF Legislation is an appro-
pirate and necessary means of enabling
Congress to exercise its great and principal,
if not sole function"
Judge Hoffman further says that the
question propounded "in no way referred
to his private and individual affairs" and
Z" if l understand correctly the arguments
of counsel and the opinions of the Judges
the whole investigation seems to be regard
ed as inquisitorial and unwarranted" The
immediate effect of this decision, if fol-
lowed, is to cripple, if not paralyZe, the
Commissioners in the discharge of a large
part of their duties imposed on them by
law.
80 long as those persons supposed they
could be compelled to attend and give evi-
dence they freely responded to the sum-
mons OF the Commissioners. But Low that
they are advised that no power exists to
compel them to do so, they will naturally
decline to assume the odious attitude of
voluntary informers against their employ
ers, and will refuse to produce any papers
or disclose any fact which might injuri-
ously affect them